Chat up and Pick up

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Chat up verb - Talk to someone with the aim of persuading him.

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Pick up and chat up are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Pick up" instead a verb "Chat up".

Pick up verb - To acquire complete knowledge, understanding, or skill in.

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Chat up and pick up are semantically related. You can use "Chat up" instead a verb "Pick up".

Sometimes people chat up/pick up a new partner in these places just as straight people do in straight bars and pubs.

Source: Where Everybody Knows Your Flame
Inverted in an ad for Meteor that had an Irish guy try to chat up a girl in Spain by getting his sister to feed him pick up lines in (bad) Spanish, "I admire your dentistry" and "Are you homeless".

Source: Bilingual Backfire

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